Consultant Clinical Scientist (Radiotherapy)

Job overview

The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) has created a new 8B role to act as the Lead for Clinical Developments and Deputy Head of Treatment Planning and is looking for a highly experienced registered radiotherapy Medical Physics Expert to fill it.

NCCC runs services at both Freeman Hospital, Newcastle and Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle and provides a highly specialised clinical service for the treatment of cancer patients. The successful candidate will be based primarily at the Freeman Hospital but would be required to work occasionally in the Carlisle site.

• Interview Date Tuesday 14 July 2026
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for supporting the head of treatment planning by providing scientific expertise, managing clinical and scientific teams and driving development of the clinical planning service to ensure a high quality service. You will have operational management responsibility for a range of aspects of the planning service and assure quality of dose modelling in a range of planning software. You will line-manage clinical scientists and advise and mentor clinical technologists. You must have significant experience in development, commissioning and QA of treatment planning processes and systems, including automated and AI systems, radiobiology and adaptive planning.  Proven experience of leading teams and leading change is essential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The NCCC is one of the leading radiotherapy centres in the UK. We are the first to use MR-only planning for radiotherapy and are one of the few radiotherapy centres with a dedicated MR scanner. Our range of advanced treatment methods on our state of the art fleet of Varian units includes SRS, SABR, VMAT, IMRT, TBI, TSEI and SGRT. We have recently introduced HyperSight imaging on our newest linacs and are developing our on-line adaptive radiotherapy processes across a range of treatments. We have a strong and developing brachytherapy service and our growing computing group is leading major automation projects.

NCCC is a reference site for advanced SRS practices with Brainlab Elements and we have an excellent culture of clinical trials involvement. We have a strong teaching pedigree linked with Newcastle University, delivering the national STP academic MSc course, oncologist FRCR teaching and local STP and Route-2 physicist training.

• You will provide scientific and technical leadership in external beam planning and contribute to ensuring resilience in the planning service.
• You will manage and lead parts of the planning service across both Newcastle and Carlisle sites and have responsibility for commissioning new and updated planning systems and related tools.
• You will lead major strategic innovations to ensure that NCCC maintains a high quality planning service to national and international guidelines and standards.
• You will liaise directly with senior clinical oncologists to develop and update clinical protocols.
• You will take a leading role in clinical trials to ensure that QC and MPE input is appropriate and you will contribute to the design of trials led by NCCC.
• You will lead on specific radiation incidents where there is a planning element, to investigate, identify and implement lessons and ensure that audits demonstrate reduced likelihood of    recurrence.
• You will contribute to design and delivery of training and coaching for a range of needs, including MSc, STP, FRCR and in-house professional development for the main professional groups in radiotherapy.
• You will develop and monitor strategies, procedures and practices, to ensure that quality of external beam treatment planning is maintained and information is stored and communicated appropriately.
• You will deliver research activities across a range of specialist areas, supervising a range of scientific and technical staff as appropriate.
• You will line-manage a number of clinical scientists and mentor, train and develop the clinical technologist team.
• You will advise on the update, expansion and introduction of planning related software and training.